Author: statusquobuster

Economic Inequality Is Real (Bad)

Rising American economic inequality has received attention by Senator Jim Webb, presidential candidate John Edwards, CNN’s maverick Lou Dobbs, and others.  The middle class has not shared in rising national...

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Delusion Destroys Democracy

Will Americans learn to trust their fellow citizens or stay stuck on stupidly backing serial political betrayers? I have been watching films from the 1940s and 1950s about World War II.  It was well known that Adolph Hitler...

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Healthy Political Faith and Dissent

It’s hard to avoid labels.  I am a proud political dissident.  Could the majority of Americans be dissidents?  Think of the two-thirds of the country that believe the nation is on the wrong track, the 52...

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Obama: The Democratic Messiah?

What a wonderful political distraction is Senator Barack Hussein Obama.  Perhaps a good part of his attractiveness is that he is in so many ways the complete opposite of George W. Bush.  Yet, what amazes me is how our...

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